The situation in Rumania began to Bucharest, Dec. 29, look more and more like a Fascist coup when a series of energetic Government measures were announced to-day. together with the can-collation of the recent elections on technical grounds. Consequently, it was understood that the new Parliament would be formally dissolved shortly. A The new measures replace all provincial administrators by members of the National Christian Party, whose leader, M, Octavian Goga has formed the new Government; municipal councils are dissolved; an army of 200000 Storm Troops, will be formed and expanded from the semi-military organization already in existence in the National Christian Party.
A heavy recession on the Stogk Exchange occurred to-day and several stocks lost as much as ten per cent. of their value overnight. This was the cause the Jews accelerated liquidation of their stocks, fearing that the new Government might be anti-Semitic, particularly as it was believed to be under the tutelage of the anti-Semite. Professor Cuza, whose policy aims at the exclusion of Jews from Government positions, a heavy penalization of Jewish businesses, the suppression of Jewish journalists and the expulsion of Jews who have come to Rumania since 1916, Three leading Jewish daily newspapers were suspended to-night.—Reuter.
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